Well, AT&T has eliminated the unlimited data plan, and Internet anarchists everywhere are having a cow. The funny thing is AT&T's headline on the announcement: "AT&T Announes New Lower-Priced Wireless Data Plans..."

First question: Are the plans really lower priced, as AT&T claims? Now that's funny. If you read the headline on this press release you would think it was some mundane, tiny pricing shift -- like AT&T thought it could slip one by millions of frothing-mouthed, blogging mobile data heads. Of course the digital-media addicted Internet anarchists note that by definition eliminating an all-you-can eat plan is raising prices. MobileCrunch calls this a "sad day in data land."

I'm in the media business. Hahahahahaah. Is that a sick joke? Is there even a media business any more? Last I checked it looked like one of those smoldering post-napalm scenes from Apocalypse Now.

No, you certainly can't hammer on a typewriter next to Cary Grant and enjoy a two-martini lunch and a union paycheck anymore, I will tell you that. Those days are over.

Why even bring this up? Because apparently Steve Jobs is telling the media world they need to cut their prices to survive. Hahahahah. The prices are already cut, Steve. MOST STUFF IS FREE, geddit?! We're already broke, how does cutting prices help?

Looks like it's Steve Jobs Wednesday here in the tech media world. Lots of stuff coming out of the Wall Street Journal's D8 Conference, where Jobs spoke at length. There were some especially interesting comments on the iPhone, the iPad, and the service from AT&T.

Jobs downplayed his knowledge of "how telecom networks work," but he did answer a question that we all want to know the answer to: When will AT&T fix its iPhone service issues? Much of this involves around the challenges of high-speed mobile data, especially via the backhaul networks. This is the topic of our new report, "The Mobile Data Deluge."